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Heinrich Nebenzahl , born in Chaskel Moses Nebenzahl , (born October 6, 1870 in Krakow , † July 6, 1938 in Le Vésinet near Paris ) was an Austrian-born, German-American businessman and film producer for German film.

Life

The Austrian citizen Heinrich Nebenzahl came from a large Jewish family who lived in a suburb of Krakow (then Austria-Hungary ). In 1888 or early 1889 he came to the USA , where he was naturalized in 1894. At an early stage, Nebenzahl tried to trade a wide variety of goods as a merchant. In February 1905 he moved to Germany with his children Seymour and Ruth, born in 1897 and 1902. There he was active in the egg and butter trade in Berlin in the last years before the First World War . These goods were supplied to Nebenzahl by his brother Ferdinand , who lives in Voronezh , Russia . In the meantime, a third child, Heinrich Nebenzahl, was born in 1906, his son Leon.

When the egg deliveries did not materialize after the outbreak of war, Heinrich Nebenzahl, who had meanwhile assumed German citizenship, quickly switched to the production of films and in 1917 became managing director of the newly founded company Natur-Film Friedrich Müller, which directed the popular sensational actor Harry Piel could win. Nebenzahl continued the collaboration with Harry Piel in changing joint companies until 1927; more than seventy films resulted from this collaboration. Nebenzahl also made films with Asta Nielsen , Harry Liedtke , Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner .

Heinrich Nebenzahl's most important company was founded in 1925 by Nero-Film AG . From 1928 onwards, under the direction of his son Seymour Nebenzahl, it developed into Germany's most artistically ambitious film production company. In 1929, with the support of Heinrich Nebenzahl, the documentary feature film Menschen am Sonntag was made , whose director Robert Siodmak was a nephew of Heinrich Nebenzahl.

In 1933 Heinrich and Seymour Nebenzahl fled from the National Socialists to France. Heinrich Nebenzahl was married to the Hungarian- born American Gussie Lustig.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 359.
  • Erika Wottrich (ed.), M as in the secondary number. Nero - film production between Europe and Hollywood , Munich, edition text + kritik, 2002 ISBN 3-88377-710-2

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personal data
SURNAME Second number, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Second number, Chaskel Moses (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American businessman and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1938
Place of death Le Vésinet near Paris